After an extremely disappointing display of teamwork during a fire drill, Mr. Burns forces his workers to participate in a cabin race at a mountain retreat, where the last one to find the cabin will be fired.--------------------------!!This episode contains examples of:* AHouseDivided: Homer and Burns start the crisis being pretty amiable to each other. By the end scene, they are quite willing to kill each other.* CabinFever: After they get stuck in a snowed-in cabin, Homer and Mr. Burns lose their grip on reality in a matter of hours.* CallingTheOldManOut: Smithers privately calls out Burns after being forced to hike the mountain alone.* GasCylinderRocket: A propane tank attached to a cabin gets its end knocked off and propels the structure downhill:-->'''Homer:''' ''[praying]'' Dear Lord, protect this rocket house and all those who dwell within the rocket house.* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: InvokedTrope. Burns makes the employees race to the cabin as a teamwork exercise, with the threat of firing the last team to arrive. The crisis that follows prevents Burns from finding out that the last guy to arrive to the rally point was [[YesMan Smithers]].* HairTriggerAvalanche: The first avalanche is caused by Homer & Mr. Burns clinking two glasses together in a toast. The second is caused by their boisterous "Huzzah!" after digging themselves out of the first. Then,-->'''Homer:''' I think when we yelled we caused another avalanche. *''AVALANCHE''*\\'''Burns:''' ''whispering'' We should... be... careful... not... to speak...unless... it's... absolutely... pos-i-tively... necessary. *''AVALANCHE''*\\'''Homer:''' Shh. *''AVALANCHE''* You're... causing... more... avalanches. *''AVALANCHE''* I *''AVALANCHE''* think *''AVALANCHE''* they've *''AVALANCHE''* stopped. {{Beat}} *'''AVALANCHE'''*\\'''Burns:''' Let's go. ''(yet another avalanche occurs as they crawl out from under the table they're hiding under)''* InVinoVeritas: Subverted, where a park ranger enters a cabin and finds it full of partying employees from the nuclear plant.-->'''Ranger:''' Hey, what is going on here? Who are you people? This is a lookout post. Where is Ranger [=McFadden=]?\\'''Drunk:''' I was just happy to see so many nice people!\\'''Ranger:''' Quiet, you drunk. Where is Ranger [=McFadden=]?\\(The camera then moves a step to the side, revealing a straight-laced ranger with glasses)\\'''Ranger [=McFadden=]:''' Right here, sir, behind the drunk.* LockedInAFreezer: Well, snowed-in cabin.* MagicFeather: Lenny and Carl reach the spot where the cabin should be, but it had been buried under an avalanche by then. Carl brings up the possibility that this trope could be in play, but Lenny dismisses it, saying, "They said there would be sandwiches."* NeverMyFault: Mr. Burns blames Homer for causing the last three avalanches, but one of them was caused by Mr. Burns himself.* ShapedLikeItself: When Marge and the ranger decide to use a chair lift to search for Bart and Lisa, the ranger remarks, "It'll give us an eagle-eye view of the area directly beneath the chair lift."* SlouchOfVillainy: How Homer and Mr. Burns got to the cabin first as they just sit and loaf while they wait for everyone else, and Burns has an odd take on it:-->'''Homer:''' Oh, these sure are comfortable chairs.\\'''Burns:''' Oh, yes, sitting. The great leveler. From the mightiest Pharaoh to the lowliest peasant, who doesn't enjoy a good sit?* TalkingToThemself: Due to a captioning error, the following dialogue appears in subtitles right after the scene where Mr. Burns believes the snowmen he and Homer built are conspiring against them:-->'''Homer:''' Burns has lost his mind; it doesn't mean I will. I'm talking to myself. Normal people do that.* TrustBuildingBlunder: Of the MachoDisasterExpedition variety. Especially because it ends with Homer and Burns wanting to kill each other.* YouAndWhatArmy: As Homer and Mr. Burns are slowly going mad, each thinking the other is planning on killing him. Eventually, Burns snaps and threatens to kill Homer. Homer responds with this... and then imagines an army of snowmen wearing [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI WWI-style]] army helmets supporting Mr. Burns. His response? Scream and claim he has special powers, ''Political'' powers. Then Burns imagines the ghosts of world leaders backing Homer up.